In Taipei

It's been a while since I've written as I've been at home in Canada visiting with family and friends for the past 3 1/2 months or so. We've been at the airport in Taipei since 6:00 AM and it's now 5:00 PM with our plane leaving in just 2 more hours. We got a really cheap flight and I think we're paying for it now.

I still haven't heard anything from my employer about what to do and where to go once we reach our destination city which this time is Gunsan (I suppose I may have to change my blog to "Gunsan Diaries" now). I just heard through the grapevine that we don't have a place yet and that we aren't expected to have one soon and there's a long story behind it all. We'll be informed upon our arrival in Incheon in about 5 hours about our housing situation. We are already cranky and stressed from not getting proper sleep for the past 25+ hours and this is not welcome news. I don't understand how someone who knew of our coming 5 months ago still doesn't have our housing situation sorted out. I'm tempted to tell them what I think of the situation but while that choice may get an apology and results in a western country, in Korea it would likely result in a string of face-saving excuses or a counter-attack blaming me.

Anyway, we're off to eat some sushi before the last leg of our trip, if we can afford it. We got some $6 US vouchers from the airline to help us wait out the day, which seemed great at first but after buying 2 "Russian" ice cream cones for $8 we realized how little that would buy us. We've still got one left so hopefully we can get some rice anyway.